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SMITH, WILLIAM. [A Geological Survey Atlas of England]. London: John Cary 1819-24. 24 maps, platemark 600 x 520 mm. (23 5/8 x 20 3/8 in.), edges uncut, folding cloth portfolio and quarter blue morocco slipcase (backstrip dampstained), some soiling, creasing and short tears to margins, Cumberland map somewhat soiled, small tear along platemark of Surrey map, Kent map with repaired tear just entering platemark.
FIRST EDITION, 24 hand-colored engraved maps of English counties, issued in 6 parts of four maps each, from January 1819 through March 1824, without title or text, the maps showing 21 counties, Yorkshire covering 4 maps, the remainder one map each. Eyles 25-33.
THE FIRST SERIES OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MAPS EVER PRODUCED. The maps were issued as follows: part 1, Jan. 1 1809: Kent, Norfolk, Sussex, Wiltshire; part 2, Sept. 1 1819: Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Suffolk, Surrey; part 3, Feb. 1 1820: Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Oxfordshire; part 4, 1821: Yorkshire; part 5, 1821 [actually 1822]: Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland; part 6, March 1, 1824: Cumberland, Durham, Northumberland, Westmorland [dated Feb. 2, 1824]. An engraved note at the bottom of each map refers to a color key to be found in the "Geological Table of British Organised Fossils," an engraved hand-colored plate that was issued as part of the Memoir to Smith's Map and Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, 1815 (see preceding lot), and also sold separately. The present maps were themselves sold separately by the publisher, hence the rarity of complete sets. Eyles records only 3 complete copies, at the Geological Society of London, Radcliffe Science Library in Oxford, and the British Museum. Smith had projected a complete survey of all the counties of England and Wales, and although Cary had already engraved a number of county maps, which were "in an advanced state of preparation, [they] never appeared with geological coloring" (DSB) .
FIRST EDITION, 24 hand-colored engraved maps of English counties, issued in 6 parts of four maps each, from January 1819 through March 1824, without title or text, the maps showing 21 counties, Yorkshire covering 4 maps, the remainder one map each. Eyles 25-33.
THE FIRST SERIES OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MAPS EVER PRODUCED. The maps were issued as follows: part 1, Jan. 1 1809: Kent, Norfolk, Sussex, Wiltshire; part 2, Sept. 1 1819: Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Suffolk, Surrey; part 3, Feb. 1 1820: Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Oxfordshire; part 4, 1821: Yorkshire; part 5, 1821 [actually 1822]: Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland; part 6, March 1, 1824: Cumberland, Durham, Northumberland, Westmorland [dated Feb. 2, 1824]. An engraved note at the bottom of each map refers to a color key to be found in the "Geological Table of British Organised Fossils," an engraved hand-colored plate that was issued as part of the Memoir to Smith's Map and Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, 1815 (see preceding lot), and also sold separately. The present maps were themselves sold separately by the publisher, hence the rarity of complete sets. Eyles records only 3 complete copies, at the Geological Society of London, Radcliffe Science Library in Oxford, and the British Museum. Smith had projected a complete survey of all the counties of England and Wales, and although Cary had already engraved a number of county maps, which were "in an advanced state of preparation, [they] never appeared with geological coloring" (DSB) .